Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said yesterday there is no reason to change how the Department of Education issues photo ID cards – even after an imposter successfully posed as a Bronx teacher.

“It’s not necessary,” Klein said. “Most of [the employees] don’t need an ID and most of them don’t get an ID.”

Schools Investigator Richard Condon a day earlier blasted the procedure as “completely inadequate” in a report that detailed how a formerly homeless man got a DOE photo ID in the name of Wayne Brightly, a teacher at MS 142 in The Bronx.

According to the report, the imposter was given the ID “within minutes” of presenting clerks with a letter from Brightly’s principal, Brightly’s Social Security card and a phony state ID card.

Protocol calls for the department to check if the person requesting the ID has been fingerprinted, which Brightly was when he was hired in 1992.

But according to Condon’s report, the DOE clerk in this case never matched Brightly’s fingerprints with those of the imposter, Rubin Leitner.